Easter April 9, 2024 Mark 16:1-8 https://cyberstones.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-Easter-Sermon.m4a Easter Sunday March 31, 2024 A+D Job 19:23-27 In the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Job’s bold confession, “I know that my Redeemer lives,” is one of the most important passages in all of Holy Scripture. His example of where to find comfort in the midst of scoffers is maybe more necessary in our age than it has ever been before.This great confession, “I know that my Redeemer lives” should be on our lips every day. The book of Job begins with God holding c ..read more

Lent 6 Palm Sunday March 24, 2024 Matthew 26:1—27:66 https://cyberstones.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-Lent-6-Palm-Sunday-Sermon.m4a Palm Sunday March 24, 2024 A+D Psalm 118, St. Matthew 27:25 In the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Psalm 118 is at the center of Palm Sunday. It serves as a guide for how to read the Passions. It teaches us to take the wicked words and even blasphemies of all the unbelievers at the trial and crucifixion of Jesus and make them our own. It is a confession of our own culpability, responsibility, and even complicity in the death ..read more

Lent 5 Judica March 26, 2024 John 8:(42-45) 46-59 https://cyberstones.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-Lent-5-Judica-Sermon.m4a Judica 2024 March 17, 2024 A+D Psalm 143 In the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Psalm 143 provides the Introit for today. It is built like two sets of stairs. The first goes down into a basement and the second comes back up again. We walk down five steps in confession and prayer. Then we find something that lets us walk up the other side. No surprise here. That something is the grace of God in the Messiah delivered throughout Israel ..read more

Laetare March 10, 2024 A+D St. John 6:1-15 https://cyberstones.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-Lent-4-Sermon.m4a In the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Jesus offers the 5000 eternal life, but they try to seize him for some bread. It is the same mistake that Eve made in the garden. It is the mistake we make every time we sin. We think what we really need is not Jesus and His Law but something material or temporary to make us happy, to take away our pain, or to satisfy us. To our fallen flesh it seems as though Jesus is both holding out on us and getting in o ..read more

Oculi 2024 March 3, 2024 Luke 11:14-28 https://cyberstones.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024-Lent-3-Sermon.m4a In John’s vision he saw war in heaven. St. Michael and the holy angels fought against Satan and his angels. Satan was defeated and cast down to earth. The war continues. It is fought here among us and we are the prize. Satan is the strong man who guards us with all that He has. His armor could not defend Him from Jesus, the stronger Man. He has been defeated. Jesus death on the cross has undone Him. But Jesus warns us: there are no empty houses, no neutral countries. If you are not ..read more

Invocabit February 17, 2024 A+D St. Matthew 4:1-11 https://cyberstones.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-Lent-1-Invocabit-Sermon.m4a In the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ” “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ Temptation takes place mainly in our minds. It is a battle of words. The devil, the world, and our sinful nat ..read more

Quinquagesima February 19, 2024 Luke 18:31-43 https://cyberstones.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-Quinquagesima-Sermon.m4a NO SERMON TEXT ..read more

The Marriage of Azrielle Ritzman and Benjamin Horner on Sexagesima February 4, 2024 Luke 8:4-15 https://cyberstones.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2024-Sexagesima-Sermon.m4a In the Name of the Father and of the +Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The ones that fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep it and bear fruit with patience.” (Luke 8:15, NKJV) We often hear the word “patience” and think of waiting. The Oxford dictionary defines it more broadly. Patience is “the capacity to tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without becoming angry ..read more

Septuagesima St. Matthew 20:1-16 February 5, 2023 A+D https://cyberstones.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-Trinity-24-Sermon.m4a NO SERMON TEXT ..read more

Transfiguration January 21, 2024 Luke 9:28–36 https://cyberstones.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-Transfiguration-Sermon.m4a NO SERMON TEXT ..read more